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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.

Every creative film person who is like "AI is here to stay", I am gonna make their work a low priority to check out. Sorry that I'm not sorry about deprioritizing or boycotting anything by George Miller and Jason Blum, but that's just too bad. My decision is here to stay and change things. 🖕

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Follow the locals!

I cannot stress how important Rebecca has been for trans gamedevs. I wouldn't be here if not for her and her wife.

Help if you can.

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Job alert ➡️ Assistant Professor of Religion,Medicine, & Healing @utoronto.ca (tenure stream).Research/teaching of religion, medicine, & healing in cultural/political contexts using historical, ethnographic, and/or textual/media studies methods, Apply by Nov 6, 2025. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Rodney Taylor still needs our help!

He’s still locked in an ICE camp.

He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs.

He’s still facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored.

Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Religious Studies folks: If you know any students thinking about applying for the PhD program at Penn, please send them this invitation to our online information session on Oct. 13!

UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org

AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/

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Assistant Professor or above in Political Science- full-time, tenure-track faculty position

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2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 Apr 2026

University of Cambridge

For more information, see the Summit website, the Summit's LinkedIn feed, or email CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk.

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Exactly! My take on his success is that on SNL he took on the role of cueing the audience to laugh. Evidently that appealed to some and is befitting of a TV host. But he’s not, and never has been, a comedian.

Attention scholars of the Digital Humanities:

Religious Communities Supporting Undocumented Immigrants Podcast Episode · The Revealer · 09/29/2025 · 44m

NEW podcast episode! "Religious Communities Supporting Undocumented Immigrants"

What are religious communities able to do to support and protect undocumented immigrants? Barbara Sostaita, author of Sanctuary Everywhere from @dukepress.bsky.social, joins us. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding – AAR Hosted by AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion "Jesus saves" banners at the January 6th insurrection. Evangelical elevation of President Trump as God's elect. Claims of religious…

On November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM ET, AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion will host a webinAAR on “The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding." Register now: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...

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UNC Sociology is hiring for two tenure-track positions!

(1) An Assistant Professor specializing in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods

(2) An Assistant/Associate Professor specializing in population health

Reviews begin 10/1. Links to positions below.

Here are the ads! Please share them widely: careers.insidehighered.com/job/3407668/... (African history); careers.insidehighered.com/job/3407671/... (US since 1865) 🗃️

Planned Research Projects Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

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Japan Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at U of Tokyo. (2 years, due on Dec 1, 2025)
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And live in a country that allows profs to have academic freedom.

I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Osama. Osama is 27 and has degrees in business administration. He lost his home and job and is now supporting his extended family including nieces and nephews Mohammed, 11, Lena, 11, Zain, 5, Ghina, 2, Muhammad, 2, Amir, 1 and Masa, 7 months.

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Assistant Professor of Asian Religion and Philosophy - Baton Rouge, Louisiana job with Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge - Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies | 37889510 The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position in Asian Religion and Philosophy, to begin in F...

LSU opening.

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